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THE FIGHT FOR THE STAIRS OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE The Greek and the Franciscan Friars have been fighting in the most undignified way for the privilege of sweeping the stairs of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Our drawing is from a photograph —

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SEVEN GRAND PRIZE COMPETITIONS.

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The Editor of the Black and White Budget offers Five Prizes of TEN AND SIXPENCE EACH, for the five best stories telling

THE BEST STORY CONNECTED WITH A TRADE OR PROFESSION.

Humorous or interesting stories are told in connection with every trade, and you must know one in the trade or profession with which you or some member of your family is interested. Tell us the story on the back of a postcard addressed to The Editor, Black and

White Budget, 34, Bouverie Street, E.C. And don't forget to put your own address This Competition closes on Friday, December 12 o:czd vr |> PHQTP A I?FlQ Aiyn v 7 ^ D " * WO 1 W/\l\.iJo WIN L, 1 . tne rcsuit will he announced December SO MARKED "COMPETITION."

O 1 The Editor of the "Black and White Budget" "will award, until furtket '- " 1 notice, a Monthly Prize of £5, and a Certificate of Merit, for

THE BEST PHOTOGRAPH OF CURRENT EVENT AM | All photographs sent in and used zvill be paid for at the ordinary rates, but at the end of each month the Editor will decide which photograph used during the month has been best suited for icproduction, and zvill forward a cheque for £5 (Five Pounds) together with a Certificate of Merit.

N.B. —In cases where a photographer supplies his prints through an authorised agent, the angloboerwar.com zvill be prise will be equally divided between photographer and agent, but the Certificate of Merit forwarded to the photographer only. This Competition commenced with the month of November, and the rei tilts of the first mouth are announced on page jjo.

3.] WHAT'S WHAT AT GLASGOW?

Every Glasgow man should know, and every Glasgow man should tell. Three Prizes of ONE GUINEA, 10s. 6d.. and 5s., are offered by the Editor of the Black and White Budget for the most correct answers {i.e., the answers

which coincide with the popular vote) to these six questions :

1. Who is the most popular man in Glas- 4. What is the finest building in or near Glasgow? j ?ow ? 5. What is the most interesting plaee to vis.t in j 2. Of what citizen is Glasgow most proud ? Or near Glasgow ? 3. WIo is the best athlete in Glasgow ? 6. What is the prettiest spot in or near Glasgow?

Answers, on the back of a postcard, marked " Glasgow Competition" to be sent in before December 12th. Results announced in " Budget " December 28th. Sheffield results this week.

4.] SUPPOSE someone gave you a Christmas Present of £1

How would you spend it ? The three best answers written on postcards will gain Prizes of 10s. 6d., 7s. 6d. and 5s.

5, 6, & T.]~ SEE PAGES 345, 350 AND 352. — — —

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NEW3 AND VIEWS

Champion Hose Races HK1STMAS CARDS will very soon be on the j wing, but judging from the good progress made A T Philadelphia, recently, the First Ward Hose Coin- C [ * *- by Loid Kitchener in South Africa, there will be very | pany, of Butler, Penn., won the championship of little opportunity this year for a card such as that we I Pennsylvania for the fifth time. The company has been reproduce. The immense success of the block-house I one of the foremost figures in the hose-racing circles system has driven the various commandos to definite 1 since 1893, when it began its career at firemen's tourna- localised districts, and now these are being hunted from 1 merits. It claims to have attended more races and won pillar to pest mote events,

. -~ : - in the most •- — — - —— with the ac- ~r>y\ effective way. co mpanying The procla- cash prizes, mation o »«"»»«< Q v t h a n a n y martial law other hose at the Cape company in put a stop to existence. In Asa S.8JI4. ia Steefcejmitogtea, the thirty the constant HE HOOFimOMMAKnANIKN EN AI.X.E VEKDERK At' THOR1TK1TEN, OfPIMEHEN, EN BuRGERf, ME NOG STTUIDEK OE recruiting of C-ESTRKDEN HEBBEN VOOB DE (%A$KANKEUJKt!EI{> VAN BE BEIDS REPUBLISHES tournaments on ook aan atte Vronwens cc Kir.dcrs die met ons rijn: it has at- the Boer ' bnMv 'irnrtea on HeilW«nsiheo mot KEKSTM1S en Nl Et! VVJAAR van de burgers vim het Ficlisburgkommwli' forces from te Fourifshtirg tended it has German mer- m .nil ZijJ travelled a. Tiicroii Humvl Ciuukum)! cenaries who w] M niter Trail* K^-I-t through ten Jotian I'll, Vamt." In passed in a different continuous States, win- stream thro' ning forty- our lines, and two first if Steyn him- prizes, The - self is net cash w i n posted as a A Christinas card sent last year to President Steyn, captured by a Yeoman from nings a ss re- Christmas Commandant Theron gate ^1,223. card some- The team where or other by December 25th, I shall be much sur- has been remarkably successful in championship races, prised. The following is the translation of the card : winning nineteen State and district championship races To the Right Honourable the States President, the out of twenty-one starts. The company has these

Chief Commander, and all the other authorities, officers, records : 250-yard hose race, 32 seconds ; 200-yard hose r.nd burghers who are still fighting, or have been fight- race, 26 seconds ; 20c-yard hook and ladder race, with thirty-foot ing, for the independence ofangloboerwar.comthe two Republics, as well ladder, 30 4-5 seconds ; 206-yard hook and as all the children who are with us, hereby ladder race, with twenty-foot ladder, 28 1-5 seconds women and ; our Christmas greetings and best wishes for the New 2co-yardhubrace,drawing3oo-poundcart, 21 2-5seconds. Year. From the Burghers of the Ficksburg Com- The company has no professionals, all the members mando at Fouriesburg. being engaged in business in the town or attending

[Names of office-rs (Boers and Hollanders), and from school ; and their success in racing has been due to such burghers who are nursing in the hospital, and regular practice, and the fact that the members take especially from the printer.] good care of themselves physically. It would be a good M. J. Meijers (Hollander), Secretary of the V.C. thine: to start hose-racing here.

The champion hose-racers of Philadelphia

Enterprising young Americans who are scooping vip all the prizes at firemen's tournaments BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Dec. 1901

ROBES FOR THE CORONATION

Coronation robes arc making' the hunters in Siberia and border, the length of the train, and the numberof balls, with Canada happy, for the demand tor fur has put up the priee or without strawberry leaves, on the coronet. The coronets of certain skins are silver gilt, to an enormous worn on the caps premium. Our of red velvet, photographs turned up with show some of ermine, with a the things to be tassel of gold on worn, and the the top. No place in which jewels are al- they are made. lowed, but the The peers' robes pearls are repre- are said to be sented by silver not quite so balls. A tulle handsome as veil falls from those of the the coronet on to peeresses, and the shoulders in yet the earl's the case of a cape shown here peeress. The looks handsome sleeves of the enough. It is peeresses are a worn over the joy forever. Thcv Court dress or reach to the el- uniform, and over bow, where the a sleeveless sur- velvet is slashed coat of crimson and edged with velvet. The cape a border of fur, falls all round being- finished the shoulders, with frills cf lace. while the robes Above the slash- proper, lined ings are ar- with silk, touch ranged two rows the ground. An earl's cape and coronet with a baron's and \ iscountess's coronets of the fur, the * * * exact position of The degrees of rank are to be marked by the very which is carefully prescribed and does not permit of the sl'ghtest differences, suchangloboerwar.comas the breadth of the furred slightest deviation,

A view of a factory in which Coronation robes are being made CPk°tps by r. a. Shield h ,

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Young puts C. S. Poorly wins the high jump with 5ft. 7ill. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HANDICAPS LAST WEEK

Fallen from its High Estate The Ned House /\ CURIOUS ceremony was witnessed by a huge THE large " Public House without Beer," which **- crowd of people at Middlewich last week, when -*- the Rev. Harry Wilson, of St. Augustine's, Sir John Brunner ignited a fire at the base of the Stepney, has built at the cost of ^,10, 000 in East London, great chimney on the old Cheshire Amalgamated Salt is to be opened on Saturday next at 3.30 p.m., when Works, now owned by the Brunner. Mond Company. the benediction of the house will take place, followed The huge by a tea for visitors. The last ;£ 1,000 required for the

c h i n e building has not yet subscribed, m y , been and consequently which mea- the upper storeys, consisting of the Red Room and the sured 210 feet working men's lodgings, will not be open for the present.

ig t A small private in he # dining-room has been provided where weighed 2,500 visitors can at any time get lunch and tea at a moderate tons, and price. The Red House is situated in Commercial boasted of a Road, and can be reached from Aldgate Station, on circumference the Underground Railway, in five minutes by tram. of 70 odd feet. Blackwall omibuses from the Bank pass the Red The fall is ad- House. The Princess of Wales has semi-publiclv mirably shown expressed her approval of the scheme, and as her. Royal in the Bio- Highness, through personal acquaintance with the neighbourhood, acquired when she went slumming with Princess Christian, knows well the needs of the district, Mr. Wilson has Going ! angloboerwar.com the pleasure of knowing that his DEMOLITION OF experiment is being followed with close attention by everyone graph picture taken for us by of every rank, high or low. the Biograph Company. * * ¥ An Interesting Revival v * * TOLA NTHE is to be revived at * PREPARATIONS for the the Savoy to-night (Satur- -* Coronation are in full swing, and the Court of Claims has all its evidence before it. On another page we show pictures Going : of the Coronation robes, which A GREAT CHIMNEY merit attention. A writer in the ______Daily Chronicle has an interest- ing tale to tell of the Coronation clubs now being day), and aii formed. These clubs, formed for the purpose of pro- the critics are viding people with clothes for the forthcoming ceremony, rubbing up can have the satisfaction of knowing that they would their reminis- not have been allowed to exist in Elizabeth's reign. cences. One The " virgin " Queen's love of pageants and fine in especial clothes proved so infectious that laws had to be made draws at- to control the dress of the citizens. Merchants' wives tention to were forbidden to wear "monstrous hats in garish the curious [Biograph colours, which are winked at and borne within the fact that it Gone '. Court^" and had to content themselves instead with has not been AT Ml DDL AVICII, CHES1UR1 knitted white woollen caps. It is something- to feel seen in Lon- that the flower girls have altered all that nowadays, and don since 1882, j that the winking is done, as it were, with the other eye. although it has been very popular in the provinces. At

Apparently, too, the modish woman already sent to I that time Mr. Gilbert was quite severely taken to task

Paris for her gowns ; for another regulation of the I for his introduction of politics into a comic opera, Miss Evie Greene on the cover of the same period forbade any but the nobility to wear \ Our portrait of woollen stuffs that were manufactured on the Con- issue, Nov. 23rd, was from a photo by "George," not j " tinent. And even Queen Alexandra's kindly hint in ! Madame Lallie," Garet-Charles. Our portraits of support of home industries will scarcely dissociate Miss Nelly Cozens and Miss Kitty Rayburn, in the j chiffons from the land of their birth. I double page, are by Hanaand Downey. : "

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A CLEVER CLOWN AT THE HIPPODROME " Illustrated with photos taken at a special sitting for the " Budget

I.avater Makes Faces

Musician, athlete, gymnast, animal session of Mr. Lee at the age of one trainer, facial artist, and clown. That's year. It* is now eight. A mule, said Lavater Lee. The name figures pro- Mr. Lee — and this may readily be minently in circus annals. The present credited —is a very difficult animal to Mr. Lee was born in the business, his train, and this particular mule was no father and grandfather having- spent exception to the rule. All the more their lives " round the ring." During credit, then, is due to its tutor for its an interview I recently had with the present state of efficiency and aptitude. versatile gentleman, I learned that his Its antics are very amusing, and it mother was an Austrian, but he first will buffet and kick its master with in-

saw the light at Brighton ; his father finite gusto. The kicks, Mr. Lee in- was also born at Brighton, but his formed me, were the genuine article, grandfather in London. He has the and not mere circus subterfuge, always appearance of a foreigner,angloboerwar.comand speaks being received with philosophic resig- with an undecided accent. nation. To give in detail the whole of his To illustrate to what a pitch of intel- accomplishments would occupy more lectual perfection the mule has been space than I have at my disposal. He trained, I will relate a little incident changes his performance occasionally which occurred at the London Hippo- in fact, I think he could give an entirely drome, where this turn may at present different " turn " every night for weeks. be seen, on Mafeking night. In honour However, one of his principal "acts" of the gallant defender of the town, consists of some clever fooling with a leaflets, on which a prominent portrait small but very smart mule. It is a of " B.-P." appeared, were distributed mere mite of a thing, but plays its part among the audience. Now during the with remarkable facility, and with a mule's performance he picks up from keen sense of " point." It is a native of the ground a Union Jack, and, stand- Algeria, and first came into the pos- ing on his hind legs, waves it about Lavater Lee at your service

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" with his front. On the night in question seeing: a B.-P." As a circus clown Mr. Lee is distinctly funny. Be it in- - pamphlet lying on the "fence" of l>he arena, he deliberately scribed to his credit that he docs not reso'rl to that tini'-worn walked over to it, picked it up wkh his front leg's, and material which, like the decrepit and weary jokes of some waved it about as he had done with the flag\ Mr. Lee minstrel shows, goes very far to make the lighter intervals assured me that he was in no way instructed to do this, very dull affairs. lie scores mercilessly off the ring-master. and that it was quite spontaneous. The house, of course, He as'ks the latter if all married women love their husbands? cheered vociferously. The reply is, Yes, certainly. Does his (the ring-master's) But now to turn to another branch of Mr. Lee's versa- wife Tove him ? Yes, certainly. Lee says that he will tility. I said he is a tacial artist. I think no one prove that it is have who not so ; and, turning- to the audience, he has seen the accompanying' photographs will be prepared to requests all ladies who love their husbands to stand up. < )\ dispute this. Observing' that he had a remarkably mobile course none do so, and the clown scores. to face, I asked him to be good enough Step before the To prove that Mr. Lee is no slouch as a g-ymnast, I need camera and favour me with a few studies in expressions. only mention that he will leap over forty soldiers with He manioulated his face with wonderful facility, and passed crossed bayonets, and land safely on his feet. The presence

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from one ludicrous distortion to another almost without an I of the bayonets adds considerably to the excitement of the effort. The extravag-antly devout, the excessively dejected, performance, and not a little to its danger. He stands alone the irresponsibly humorous and the abnormally inoffensive in this feat, and will continue to do so as far as I am per- are all in turn represented and striking-ly depicted. sonally concerned. As regards Mr. Lee's musical attainments, I may mention In what I may call the zoological department, he possesses that he can play the violin, guitar, mandoline, concertina, a splendid leaping- Russian greyhound, and a monkey which, and —well, there may be others, but I think these will be dressed in man's attire, will undress coincidentlv with his sufficient for the present. He is not, however, content to master, and imitate his every act. play these instruments in the orthodox manner, but will In conclusion, I may tell you that Mr. Lee has travelled adopt methods never dreamed of by the ordinary musician. all over the world, and performed before the Czar of Russia, For instance, he will play that much-worried instrument, the the late Li Hung Chang at Hamburg when he was globe- concertina, between his knees, and thinks nothing of ex- trotting, the King when Prince of Wales, the German tracting sweet harmony from the violin while performing Emperor, and other notabilities, affording all temporary

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* THE 'VARSITY MATCH AT A GLANCE * STATISTICS FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY'S PLAY

The match between Oxford and Cambridge, to be fought of I lie victory. Thus we see Oxford won very easily in out next Wednesday, promises to be of unusual interest, as 1883 and 1884, and Cambridge scored comfortable victories the Oxford team is one of the most powerful of recent in 1887, 1888 and the year before last. When one or other times. In the first International final match, played at of the lines enters a circle on the base line, as the Oxford Richmond last week, no less than seven out of the winning line does in 1876, Cambridge's in 1877, and both 'Varsities team were Oxford men. J. E. Crabbie, the Oxford Cap- in 1874, this indicates that the team or teams scored no tain, is a Scot, and won his International cap in the season points in lhaft particular match. It will be noticed that the 1889-90. The Cambridge Captain, Mr. D. R. Bedell-Siv- Oxford team had fhe misfortune not to score a point in four right, is an old Fethesian, and won his cap in the same consecutive matches, i.e., in 1885 and 1886 at Blackheath year. The 'Varsity Match is always full of surprises, and and 1887 and 1888 at Queen's Club, the men from the Cam the Cambiidge Captain has still faith in the praspects of the winning four successive matches, a feat previously accom- Light Blues. He has a team that plays well together, and plished by Oxford from 1881 lo 1884 inclusive. it is also a notorious fact that a good team can fail through The reason why it is impossible to give more than an idea being too cocksure of a victory. The forward combinations of the extent of the victories in the upper portion of the in both teams are exceptionally strong, and no finer pass- figures is not far to seek —the various alterations in the ing has been seen on the Oxford side since the introduction method of scoring. Prior to 1875 it was laid down that a of the four three-quarter game. maUh shall be decided by a majority of goals only. During Since 1873, when at the Oval the 'Varsity teams played the following year the same method held good, plus the the first of their seven drawn games out of twenty-one accompanying addenda : 'But if the number of goals be

matches brought to a definite conclusion Oxford claims equal, or no goal kicked, by a majority of tries ; if no goal eleven victories and Cambridge one less. So closely have be kicked or try obtained, the match shall be drawn. In the matches been contested thai in twenty-eight years the 1886, when points were introduced, a goal equalled three

Cantabs (who now hold the lead so far as points are con- tries. Further alterations are recorded , but up to 1889, cerned) can point to a majority of but eight tries minus when matches were determined by a majority of points, 1 one goal, the exact state of affairs at present being as goal equalled three and a try 1 point, which scoring was follows : afterwards modified, so that a penalty goal was equal to 2

Twenty-eight points , a goal from try or 1 matches played: Oxford won u, Cam- drop goal, 3 points ; try, point. bridge 10, drawn 7. Oxford scored 16 goals 16 tries, Another change occurred in 1891, and in 1893 the present

goals tries. scoring was decided 7.*\ , try, goal, Cambridge 15 24 upon— 3 points ; penalty goal In the portion of the diagram we points ; from fry (try not lo count), points; upper angloboerwar.comaccompanying 3 5 any show at a glance by the course of the thick black line from other goal, 4 points. left to right how Oxford has fared from year to year, and In the lower portion of the diagram we show the goals by the dotted line the fortunes of Cambiidge. The line that and tries scored in each match b> both teams, the goal being

- appears uppermost half-way across any of the columns represented by a parallelogram bearing upon it the letter G, shows the victor for the particular year to which that and the try by a smaller parallelogram, labelled T. In (he column is devoted, whilst the distance separating it from event of a team having scored no points, the fact is indi- the lower line at a similar point gives an idea of the extent cated by a circle placed on the base line.

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MISS NELLIE COZENS Principal Boy in the Forthcoming Christmas Pantomime (Robinson Crusoe) at the Alexandra Theatre, Sheffield 1

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First Prize of £2 2s. Second Prize, £1 Is., to Leytonstone "RATS !" A curious incident, not very often met with, is the following account of animal life, which occurred about tradesman with I deal keeps provision A whom a five years ago, when the mother of our two puppies shop, which, to his annoyance, is far from the main not died, they being only two days old. They were given sewer, and is therefore infested with rats of all shapes to the cat, and her kittens drowned. At first she did not and sizes. What troubled him more than this, how- j like the change, but after a little while went to them ever, was that for a long time numbers of eggs disap- I and contentedly sat-and nursed them, feeding and lick- peared most unaccountably each day. Not only did ing them as if they were her own kittens ; but I think vanish altogether, tound many but egg-shells would be the climax came when they got old enough to begin to every morning about the place void of their contents. bark. The first time that sound came she at once evening he placed shelf, j One two eggs on a high and rushed to them and looked down their throats, wonder- in drawer, left two a which he open about an inch. In ing whatever was the matter with them as they barked the morning the four eggs had gone. The proprietor instead of mewing ; but she got reconciled to it, and, at first suspected someone about the place, but aban- good old cat that she was, still cared for and tended doned the idea from its very impossibility. I called on them until she died, when they were about two years him one day, and when he told me his troubles, I old. — K. Stone, 463, High Road, Leytonstone, Essex. suggested that one came from the other. He rather rudely echoed my suggestion, " Rats !" but agreed to * * * test it. That night he left a dozen eggs about, then Third Prize, 10s. 6d., to Warminster took up a position behind some boxes in the corner. About four years ago there was born and bred in the Warminster Post-office a fine tabby cat, who, judging from his attendance therein, considered himselt a neces- sary adjunct to that establishment. When wishing to gain admittance during the day, he would creep in the public way and spring upon the back of any person who happened to be at the counter, and from thence on to the counter. » He would get in after office hours by angloboerwar.composting himself in the letter-box, the door of which opened into the office, and was kept open for ventila- tion. — G. W. Manley, Post-office, Warminster. *? » V A CARLISLE DOGGIE A friend of mine once owned a dog (a Dandie Din- mont terrier), which was particularly fond of his eldest daughter. On the children retiring to rest the dog was always anxious to go upstairs with them, but was not allowed to do so. One night after the children had gone upstairs, and no one was paying attention to the

1 dog. ne quietly slipped up after them. When he got in the bedroom, his favourite was kneeling at her bedside to their throats" "Rushed them and looked down 1 saying her prayers. The dog placed himself be- When all was quiet, one by one the rats came out, till side her, sat on his there were quite thirty. The way they tackled the eggs haunches, put his fore- was marvellous. One rat lay on his back with an egg- feet on the bed, and put between his four legs, while another dragged the living his head forward on to trolley by the tail to a hole. Another rolled his egg- his paws imitating her along to the same destination, while a third, after in prayer. —W. J. Mal- piercing one end with his talons, took an egg up linson, 26, Bank Street, between his forelegs, sat on tiis haunches, and swal Carlisle. lowed the contents, The most wonderful thing of all, v * * however, was their method of lowering the eggs from t! e 3ft. counter. A rat would lie on his back with an HE KNEW THE BEST egg between his legs, while another would gently push DOCTOR him to the edge. Down he would fall on his back on Twenty years bring the floor without damaging the egg in the least. Two me back to the time other rats amused themselves by dipping their tails into when I was resident a flask of oil, afterwards licking off the spoil. In this dresser in a large way the raid went on. Not only the eggs left about hospital. The last were taken, but toll was levied on the cases in the shop. patient had just left Truly rats are wonderful creatures. — E. C. Lempriere, the accident ward, 22, Seymour Road, Harringay, London, N. when I observed "Posting himself in the letter-box" — ' — —

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But she took no notice. He then returned and jumped on the table, chattering in her face, so then she got up and he went before her to the front door and stopped. She heard no bell or sound, but out of curiosity opened the door, and there stood her mistress, my sister and self.— Miss Harding, Katie Villa, Trouville-sur- Mer, France. V ¥ v A FUNERAL-FANCYING DOG A good many years ago there lived in Fort William a dog which attended every funeral in that neighbour- hood. Gilliemor was his name, and a sulky, surly little fellow he was, having a mortal hatred to noisy children and beggars. The only remarkable feature in his character was his predilection for attending funerals. Whenever a funeral happened, although it were ten miles distant, and although he had to cross ferries or rivers, the moment the coffin appeared Gilliemor appeared also, and never left its side until it reached the burying-ground. There he would wait anxiously while the body being interred, " Imitating her in prayer" was and that melancholy duty over, he would immediately trot away home, or set off to attend some other funeral. has under a seat a small black-and-tan terrier. I noticed He been known to attend many funerals in different parts something was amiss with it, and found it to be suffer- of the country in one day, ing from a broken leg. Having set the limb in splints, and was looked upon as an indispensable chief mourner. the grateful patient hopped out on three legs, wagging Ainslie Keir, 145, Foul- ford Road, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. his tail. About three months afterwards the gate porter came to my room, and said, " If you please, sir, * * v there are two dogs in the accident-room, and 1 cannot "KNOWING " get them out." I immediately went down, and there JOEY found my old friend, the black-and-tan, who ran up to Such a dear little Shetland pony is Joey, and so me wagging his tail, and then returned to the corner. fond is he of sugar ! At teatime we always let him Under the same seat lay another dog, with a broken leg, which I set immediately, much to the delight of the former patient. — P. Drought, 107, Balfour Road, 11 ford, Essex. ¥ * * "SNAKES!" A lady in Durban, on gettingangloboerwar.comup one morning, heard a most peculiar noise in the pantry. She was astonished to find that a snake had its head and part of its body through the handle of a china jug. Both sides of the snake— that is, the portion on each side of the handle were bulging out. Then she discerned what had happened. Some eggs had been lying on the shelf, and the snake, after having swallowed one, had crawled partly through the handle of the jug—that is, as far as the egg would allow— in order to get at another, which it had also swallowed. Naturally enough, it could not then go either forward or backward through the handle. The lady was just going to call her husband when the "Much to the delight of the former patient" reptile gave a desperate wriggle, and in doing so fell on the floor with a bang, handle and all. But the fall loose from the stables, and he comes over the lawn, up broke both the eggs in its inside, and taking advan- five steps, and through the French window to the tage of its release from the handle, it was out into the dining-room, where he receives his daily allowance. " " garden before you could say 'Ware ! — E. Barker, One day, however, the maid had the tea somewhat 129, Queen's Parade, Scarborough. earlier than usual. She sounded the gong, but it was * ** some ten minutes or more before we came down. In " - the meantime Master Joey," having heard the gong , A CLEVER MONKEY and thinking possibly that we had forgotten him, I once had a small tufted marmoset, a great pet, and broke loose from the stables, mounted the steps, particularly fond of our maid. One day we were all passed through the open window, and found the out the - ; manservant having an errand to do of his own, sugar basin. When we came down to tea we asked the maid to were not a little attend to the bell. amused to find She was in a room him helping some distance off Mm self freely working, and the to the sugar, little monkey was whilst the carpet loose running was strewn with about. After a " sugar-lumps." time he came to James T. Jarvis, her screaming and iS, High Street, then ran away. Both sides of the snaite were bulging cut Eastbourne. 33^ BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Dec. 7, 1901

R.A.M. Corps instruct the Guards Brigade M.I. in First Aid

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Group at the Presentation to Ex-Chief Inspector Bridges

The presentation was made by the K or Limehoii9e Division, Metropolitan Police, after twenty-nine years' service. (Photo by J. Bartier) Dec. 7, 1901 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 333

A DAY WITH THE CHESHIRE YEOMANRY

Yeomen cleaning their fittings after drill The Inspection—General Turner watching the inarch pat

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The attacking party advancing across the open

Col. James Tomkiuson directing the firing A consultation with Lord Harrington (Photos by G. Mark Cook) 334 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Dec. 7, 1901 ODDS AND ENDS OF WAR

The Biggest Steel Dry-Dock in the World Those Germans This dry-dock was built for the U.S. Government, and ' Mr. Chamberlain's very mild reference to the severities will be used by of the German sol- Uncle Sam for diers during the docking- the battle- Franco - Prussian ships of his coun- war have created try's navj-. New such an outburst of Orleans planned a Anglophobia among reception worthy of $*L& the bombastic pa- the event. triots of the Father- The dis- • ' ' ptf.:.M -- - -- IP ' ' MNtHioJi C^ ^ --^W--'— ""^PiP tance of the tow land that it is only from Baltimore is fair to recall some 2,000 miles. The ifiSpW of the atrocities . cost of the tow is jHJHHJ perpetrated in the 35.000 dols. The name of civilisation crews of the tugs thirty years ago l.y and the dock num- our candid friends. ber sixty-four men. On the night of The dock is 525ft. January 21st and by 126ft. A walk Bi the early morning around the struc- of January 22nd, ture is equal to one 1871, the third mile. Six thousand The biggest steel dry-dock in the world, afloat 011 its way from legion of the Garde tons of steel and Baltimore to Algeria, New Orleans Mobile, commanded one thousand tons" by Lieut. - Colonel of machinery constitute the equipment in the main of this Fornel, was attacked in the village Hauteville, department dock. The plates, half-inch thick, are fastened by 1,232,800 of Saone-et-Loire, and retired, leaving the ambulance in the rivets. The sides of the dock are 55ft. high and 400ft. long, centre 'of the village. Notwithstanding that the Geneva The structure flag was flying, Surgeon-Major Morni and Dr. Milliaud and was built by the the sergeant and bearers, Heret, De Champigny, Fleury Maryland Steel and Legros, were massacred in cold blood. At St. George's, Company. When near Baume-le-Dames, in the department of Doubs, the it was pulled out mayor and cur£ were bayoneted for refusing to supply the from Sparrows requirements of the Germans. Contrary to international Point 7,516 tons convention, Thionville, now Diedenhofen, was bombarded of water were in by the Germans for fifty-four hours with bombs containing the hold — this petroleum. Have we done anything like this? weight would fill angloboerwar.comthe biggest ocean liner to her load-

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the tug - boat j- Orion, from the dock to the tug, is composed of links 6in. thick, every 6ft. of which represents

259 lbs. ; the hauling power is 72 tons. A manila hawser, 600ft. long and loin, thick, and The first three British officers in the doubled, connects Moorish Army the chain with the tug, where it is made fast by a 3m. wire cable. The tug Taurus precedes the Orion ; the hawsers between the two tugs are a third of a mile long. They are as big as a man's leg. ¥ * ¥ Moors and British The Continental military gentlemen may decry our Army as much as they like, but they cannot get over the fact that the Moorish envoys who recently made a tour of Europe were so struck with the efficiency of our soldiers that three non-commissioned officers of the British Army have been selected to act as instructors of the Moorish Army. Colour- Sergeant Dooley, of the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Sergeant Evershed, of the 3rd Battalion Royal Warwick- shire Regiment, and Corporal Appleby, of the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (I name them as they stand in the photograph, reading from right to left) are the three in Army Challenge Trophies won by the 2nd Battalion question. They are shown dressed in Moorish uniform. Highland L.I. (Photo by Colour-Sergeant J. E. Taylor) Dec. 7, 1901 BLACK AND WHITH BUDGET 335

VENEZUELA AND ITS CHANGING RULERS r-~ —

When one talks of the last revolution in watchwords of other parties printed en Venezuela one refers to the last before them in their pocket for use when tack- going' to press, just as in election news ing. one can only give the number of votes General Mendoza, in a Panama hat, is up to a few hours before the newspaper is a typical Venezuelan General cf the variety published. One of the very last revolutions order shown elsewhere, his sword, as usual,, then refers to that in which General Castro slung over his shoulder. General Mer- turned General Andrade out of office, and doza is celebrated as a quick - change took possession of the public purse himself. Y artist even in Venezuelan political circles. The insignia of the office of chief magis- In 1892 he played Commander-in-Chief to trate in Venezuela do not consist of crown Palaccio's President, Castro taking t he- and sceptre, or of any old-world marks of 1 part of Insurgent. When Castro was that kind, but simply of the keys of the about to succeed in the taking of a town Treasury. With them the most ambitious that Mendoza was defending, Mendoza was

adventurer is content, and poor President • enough to loot the city before Castro i quick Castro has had to be content with them could get in. This was thought to be an and nothing else, for Andrade had played ' 1 exceedingly clever stroke. In November the game strictly according to -the rules, , W\ 1 1898, he again played the part of Comman- and had left the cash-box empty for his J der-in-Chief, this time to Andrade's Presi- successor. Now Castro's own supremacy is i dent, Castro sustaining his old role of threatened —and with German connivance. Insurgent, and so well did both he and Castro comes from the Andes, and is Castro play their part that in December partly is said to to the Indian ; he be a good General Mendoza Castro was promoted more difficult general, anyhow he appeared one day near role of President, Mendoza remained as Val'encia with a few score of his friends, and Andrade's first Commander-in-Chief, while Andrade became walking gen- army and its general went over to his side. One of our tleman in the company, and is now awaiting a fresh engage- photographs shows the soldiers lined up for a review in ment at Porto Rico. On the 14th, Fernandez having Valencia. Another shows Castro reviewing them half an undertaken Castro's old part of Insurgent—he had been hour later. Castro is the gentleman in a white Castro's understudy for some years, so he was hat and a black suit of clothes ; his staff are on well qualified for the engagement — Mendoza either side of him. The practical good met him outside Valencia and defeated him. sense of the Venezuelans is observable in President Castro has offended the Vene- the absence of uniforms ; it would entail zuelans by putting on the airs of an such an expense if the officers and men Emperor. He would sit on a golden had to change fheir uniforms every throne and make all who wished time they changed sides. A yellow audience of him come to him with ribbon round their hat with the bowed heads. The German Govern- watchword of their party printed ment has, however, determined to on it as their only badge probably secure change, ; angloboerwar.com a and a German they keep other ribbons with the warship is on the spot.

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The cabbie is, without doubt, one of the most savage animals found in Paris-. It is in vain that a society, called the Compagnie G&ierale des petites Ventures, has angloboerwar.comattempted to tame and acclimatise him. At the least sign from a passer-by, he flies at full speed uttering' horrible cries. Sometimes, however, in old age, he comes to a stand, where a kindly policeman protects him from pitiless "fares" who would attempt to snatch his well-earned repose. At other times one can only catch him by violence or by a ruse. Get a South American friend to teach you how to lasso. You will soon learn to catch him, and while he is getting up you ha.ve time to enter the cab. The revolver is, however, more certain and easier. Never mind if he falls, he is of a species hard to kill. The advantage of driving off alone is that you do not require to give him a tip.

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A DOG DRAMA : a clever canine performance

We have, from time to time, had many t roups of perform- I wr ting the littledog drama ends here ; but before these worc's ing- dogs on the "Halls," but none at once so skilful, appear in type it will have been elaborated in the amusing and entertaining as those presented following manner: a policeman enters, dis- at the Palace Theatre by Mr. Merian. covers the dead Bibby, fetches an ambu- It is no exaggeration to say that lance, has the body carried away, these dogs are the most remark- and then arrests Bob, taking him able canine performers that ever off by the scruff of the neck. appeared before the public. It is - extremely diverting , When the curtain goes up, and you cannot help being a small, built-up house, convulsed when Bibby with practicable doors climbs in through the and windows, is seen window. on the right of the I subsequently had stage ; on the left is a chat with Mr. an illuminated black- Merian, who was board, and at the good enough to back 1 row of allow me to have cages. Mr. Merian the "act" photo- enters in evening graphed. On this dress, carrying a auspicious occasion cane and accom- Caesar was good panied by a French enough to spell poodle. The latter "Blackand White," relieves his master out of compliment of his cane and to this journal. Mr. gloves and deposits Merian is a native of them carefully in a Bremgarter, near safe place. Then Zurich, and for some various dogs, poodles years was impresario and terriers, appear from for various entertainers, the cages at back, and at the same time training after an amusing game of animals for various perfor- liide-and-seek in and out of mers. He logically argued the cages, a thought-readin o that if he could train for others seance is introduced. The medium why not train for himself? Very is the French poodle, Cassar, who little sooner argued than accomplished. guesses correctly articles which Mr. Merian He was not long in possessing himself of borrows from the audience, including the a troupe of apt canine pupils. In Caesar dates on coins and words written on a Bibbie joins Annie caressingly he secured a prize. Said Mr. Merian : " slate. This is done byangloboerwar.com I bought him very cheap; means of letters and figures the owner could not have on cardboard, which Caesar known how clever he was. picks up with his mouth in I had not had him long proper sequence. before I discovered that I Next the dogs perform a possessed a dog of phe- little domestic play. It is nomenal intelligence. He entitled- A Love Drama, observes things with almost and the characters in it are human comprehension. I Boh,: (Annie's husband), will give you an instance of Annie (wife of Bob), and this. Every morning Cassar Bibby (Annie's lover). The comes to my bedside, and dogs are dressed in appro- watches me closely. Directly priate clothes, wear wooden I open my eyes he straight- clogs, and walk on to the way fetches my various stage on their hind legs. articles of wearing apparel, Annie enters, carrying one by one, and in the order milking pails, and Bibby in which I need them. For soon follows, when a little this he was not trained in

love scene ensues. Finally any way whatsoever ; he the faithless wife arranges simply watched me dress, a rendezvous with her lover and one morning he antici- in the absence of her hus- pated me by bringing the band. Night comes on and things to me as I have de- the lights are lowered. scribed. He has continued Presently enters Bibby, to do so ever since." creeps under a window, Another remarkable fea- and whistles for Annie, ture about this dog is that " I'm under your windy, he is a linguist. In the darlin'." Annie appears, thought - reading perform- and then the bold Bibby ance Mr. Merian addresses climbs into the room and the dog in three different lan- joins her caressingly. A guages, English, French, few minutes after a tragedy and German, on different is enacted, for the husband nights; Caesar answers to returns unexpectedly, dis- them all. covers Bibby with his wife, It has been said in the chases both out of the Press that the wooden house, and shoots the lover shoes which the dogs wear dead. At the time of Caesar spells "Black and White" must be painful to them. BUDGET Dec. 7, 19°! BLACK AND WHITE

This Mr. Merian proved to me is not the cast;. b> and m^ I examined the boots very carefully, found the insides quite smooth, and impossible ay 1 in any way to injure a dose's feet. More- over, they are almost as light as a feather, and, therefore, could not cause any strain on the leg. They are made in Holland, of soft

wood. I carried away a pair with me. 1 white Wm ^^F si HI Mr. Merian booted one of the dogs in the 1 II dressing-room, and it certainly seemed to to the horizontal. 1 . 2i prefer the perpendicular As Mr. Merian truthfully said, you can always distinguish between the dog that per- forms from fear, and the one that performs YHK from affection. You have only to appeal, in a kindly manner, to a dog's understanding,

.'.' : and if he can do a thing he will readily enough. No need to be brutal. The story of A Love Drama is founded on fact. With the exception of the shooting the drama was really enacted in Switzerland, afterwards being translated into doggerel. It appears that this kind of domestic dissension

is somewhat frequent in Switzerland, and that importunate lovers make night rendezvous at 17^* husbands' houses, usually making the method of entrance by w-indow. Mr. Merian was instrumental in getting the one in question a good thrashing at the hands of the husband. * _ , HK& , . I am sure we all agree that it served him " •I'm under your windy, darlin' rig-lit. H. L. Adam. 'Let me in, Aunie dear"

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him ; Hagan knew this, and so was a picturesque and con- tented man. You may be sure that in his wanderings he fell across many adventures, and by the time he rubbed his aching head and palmed his two sovereigns, had come to a stage of philosophy when a man takes matters as he finds them, and makes the very best of a very bad job. But this adventure — well, he sat down in the shade of a tree —a July sun was shining strong this morning— and there at the foot of the Surrey hill he ruefully gazed at a black and blue

forearm a second time ; no, it was a twenty-second time. A twenty-second too, jingled time, he the sovereigns, and . again tried to come to an understanding with himself as to the profit and loss of the transaction, but failing, gave the whole thing up as a bad job. But to come to the story. The fact of the matter is that this Hagan was in his way a sybarite. Like all law-abiding men, he disliked a strange bed, and to be sure, his "calling" m life made it impossible for him to occupy the same couch every night. However, he had his predilections as to the sort of earth to sleep upon, and his tastes ran strongly in favour of the bare, dry, brown mould that is to be found under those spire-like pine trees that rest their lower branches on the ground like a hen spreads her wings over chickens. So when evening was draw- ing near Hagan the Tramp kept a sharp look-out for " the spire of such a pine, and usually when " touring English country districts he found one. Long usage had taught him to look for these piries in the grounds of private houses, and this, too, near to the house. Proximity to a big house suited Hagan, for, as has angloboerwar.combeen told, he was a sybarite, and besides, his soul was a sociable soul. Nearness to a dwelling had its draw- backs — risk of discovery — but also its attractions. m While waiting for bedtime, smoking his short clay pipe, he could gaze at well -lighted windows and imagine great things in the way of dinners and wines ; warmth and comfort. Often, too, he saw scenes that aroused his wonder, or sent him into a fit of silent

laughter ; a dumb chuckle that set his flesh aripple over "Again carefully lighted it" his ribs. For Hagan was fat, and the evening before this afternoon on which he puzzled his brains and " Was it worth it? Yes, I think it was : then agin jingled his sovereigns he had found a bed to his liking. I think it wasn't." The tree grew in the grounds of Sir James Shergold Hagan the tramp gingerly felt the lump on the side over against the hills that look down upon the stunted of his head ; then he slipped his hand into the pocket towered church and drab gravestones of Oxted. When of the tatters he called his trousers and jingled the two convenient dusk fell, Hagan, old hand, found a vulner- sovereigns that met the tips of his fingers. Next he able place in Sir James' paling, scraped through, and rubbed his sore shin—blue and sore it was —and then noiseless of foot as any hare, made his way by rapid peered into the bundle he carried on his stick and eyed dodging from one safe cover to another until he came the edibles therein. to one of his favourite trees that rested the tips of its Did it pay me ? " he muttered, stroking his chin, fingers on the very lawn itself. Indeed, green, close- " Bless me if I can make out whether it was worth all clipped grass surrounded three-fourths of the tree. the trouble or not. I think it was : then asrin I think Underneath he crept without so much as disturbing a it wasn't." needle, and then looked around him. Dry mould, Unconvinced, he limped on. warm dry, brown and clean.

Now this Hagan was a tramp by conviction ; none Hagan, captious Hagan, was satisfied. He spread of your narrow local tatterdemaleon, but a cosmo- a copy of the Times—he believed in the Times as a good politan tramp. He had legged it among the Highland quality paper to sleep upon— for a bed, undid his hills ; he had footed itacross the broad-breasted American bundle of mysteries, took therefrom the remnants of a States— at once the Paradise and Perdition of Tramps goose, one of a gaggle that had scoffed at his rags as he had dodged along the dusty, stone-fringed highways he crossed Barnes Common two days past, and, placing of his native country, Ireland ; he had sauntered, pro- the remainder of the bundle for a pillow, set too to fessionally, among the green lanes of England. I am make his evening meal. This finished, he searched almost convinced that in the silting sands of the Sahara among his rags, and ultimately hit upon a clay pipe he would have picked up succulent sustenance, but as which still harboured the ash of a recent pipeful of hitherto he had not blown Africawards, one cannot be shag, carefully pressed this into a concrete mass, and, sure as to that. Rags suited him ; they looked part of again carefully, lighted it. Then, his back against the Dec. 7, 1901 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET trunk of the tree, he dropped his arms in a loop round " Is my presence so distasteful?" sneered the young his knees and peered out at the great house of Sir man, his cigar elevated to an aggravating angle. " It James Shergold. used not to be." Hagan saw that he had hit upon a festival of sorts. " Used not to be?" repeated the girl. " No !— my

Every window was a glow of light ; many people breaking heart tells me that now you speak the truth seemed to be stirring indoors. Hagan guessed that if the truth was never spoken by you before. O, God ! many sat down to dinner, and "Hagan guessed right, had everything you told me in days gone by been so Hagan speculated, too, that there would be some true —but why waste brsalh in upbraiding one who sound old wine drunk at the table, and again Hagan cannot feel ? You ask is your presence distasteful to was right. He knew there was much merriment, but me. I answer, yes ! yes ! YES ! more distasteful than it did not cross his mind that there lurked in the merri- the presence of that adder that rustles beneath that ment a tragedy. tree." His interest in the food and wine was platonic, for Hagan warily glanced about him. whatever one might say against Hagan, none could " Its sting would not have so burned into my soul. with truth call him a burglar. He knew too much. " If the wine be not for me, what care I for whom it be," he said in other and much / fewer words. So he sat and smoked, and smoked and sat, and two hours slipped away. J A full moon shone, the windows flirted their f fan of golden light upon the lawn, and, alto- gether, Hagan thought it a poetic scene. But the tramp was a practical man, and an idea &?. that bedtime had arrived crossed his mind. He knocked the ash out into his palm, gazed at it, and could not resist the temptation. Taking a pinch of fresh tobacco, he laid the foundation of one last pipe, poured the ash on the top, and lighted up. Now, whether he did wisely or not—well, Hagan could not bring his wits to agree. About the twelfth whiff, Hagan's quick ears caught the sound of voices coming from the front of the house. He parted the needles of the pine gingerly to get a view in that direc- tion, and he saw two people coming slowly out upon the lawn, moving in his direction. He dexterously slid the clay pipe, still alight, into his rags, keeping his thumb over the bowl in case of accident, for tramps carry no fire insurance. angloboerwar.com Round the front of the house and out upon the lawn, came the two. Hagan saw that they were young. The lady wore a dress ol cream satin that shone never so lovely as in the light of the full moon, and she had nothing on her head except locks black as the main of a December midnight. She walked along slowly, and seemed to be gazing at her toes. The gentleman, too, was in evening dress, bare of head, and he held a lighted Havana between his fingers (later on, Hagan sniffed the smoke and knew it to be a Havana). He held his head high, his step was resolute, and when he stepped out into the light he cast one ' ong glance at the moon that gloriously splashed its rays on the green lawn. The instant Hagan clapped eyes on the two he /- divined that something was up. They strolled on in silence in the direction of Hagan's ardour. When the man and woman had reached a spot so near to the tree that the tramp, if so minded, could have dashed his slouched hat in the face of either, the girl suddenly whirled upon her escort, and, in a voice trembling with emotion, demanded : " " Here again ? " ] Yes, here , again." ; " " Still hounding me ?

" ' If you are pleased to call it hounding,' 1 \ am still hounding you." The girl made a motion of disgust. Hagan's "He landed upon the villain's back" interest was quick and vivid. " And I am never to free myself of you, Reg^n.dd and, contented with its strike alone, it would have left Blake? Am I to be hounded, hounded, hounded for me to nurse wound." " my ever ? The young man tossed his head contemptuously. —" — 1

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The girl, she stood glaring at him, her grand head fered 'tween man and wife, and I'm getting my thrown well back, hands clenched, and arms rigid by reward." her side. Presently she relaxed. Nevertheless, he fought on, an honest Kilkenny

"How often, O ! how often have I prayed that pity scratch-and-punch fight, for Hagan was no novice at a would enter your soul, and that, relenting, you would rough-and-tumble.

' say : A woman has asked me, a man cannot refuse. By the time his second wind came to him, the tramp I will cease to haunt her, to hunt her. I will meet her found himself hopelessly outnumbered. The cry of the as a some-time friend, or as any other girl of my girl had brought a host of people from the hall, and, as acquaintance. I will be a villain no longer, I will be a invariably happens in this world, they favoured the man.' Can you not bring yourself to do this for a wicked. Evening dresses were all around him, and at

broken-hearted girl ? Behold ! here I kneel and pray length he lay on the grass, a man holding each arm, " to you and one comfortably seated on his legs. A portly old The man laughed a heartless laugh. gentleman, panting in excitement, stood before him. " " " " Do not make yourself absurd— do not be a fool. You murderous ruffian ! he gasped. What the " Look facts in the face. For heaven's sake, when will devil are you doing here ? you women learn to recognise a fact when it stares you " I heard a lady in disthress," replied Hagan, " in the f;:ee ? Men do amazed, "and I came to her assistance, and if ye let " " ' Men ! Do not use the sacred word 'man in my me up I'll punch that blackguard's " presence, you who are a fiend in the image of a man ! " A lady in distress ? " Hagan, absorbed, got upon his hands and knees the Yes, that lady there ; she was beggin' and implor- better to see and hear. Unwittingly, too, he assumed in', and the blackguard grabbed her by the wrist, and " the best position to spring. she sobbed and " I have borne your raillery long enough — too long!" Sir James, rotund man, threw back his head and " barked the man, advancing menacingly. Day after burst into a roar of laughter. This over with, he said : " day your spiteful tongue has rained obloquy upon my Let the man up ; I swear I sympathise with him head—you smother me in a bog of bitter words. Here, heart and soul. If you young people will make fools and now, I give you to understand, finally, for ever, of yourselves over these confounded amateur theatricals that I have you secure in my grasp." He took a few — well, you must expect the drop-curtain to fall on your rapid strides forward and ruthlessly seized hold of the heads sometimes. It has fallen on yours, Justin, my girl's wrist. "I hold you in my grasp, and from it boy." " none shall free you ! He beamed on the villain, who stood a hopeless The girl threw her unembarrassed arm over her wreck before them all, collar torn off, shirt-front brow in agony and despair. The villain peered sav- crumpled and smudged, hair awry, and in a general agely at her as gasps of grief and pain came from her state of disreputability. lips. Hagan sat up and rubbed his head. " " Hagan could stand it no longer : with one wild Amateur theatricals, is it ? he muttered. " Hooroo !" and one antelope bound, he landed upon " Yes, my man," roared the baronet. " " the villain's back, together, bundle, Bad luck to the stage ! continued the and an amorphous tramp ; " rags and dress-suit hopelessly entangled, they came to and I was occupying a stage-box, was I ? . But I the earth with a thud that might have been heard might have known their spach was too high falutin' to plainly in the house. Nextangloboerwar.cominstant Hagan heard a be jinuine." piercing shriek, evidently from the girl he had rescued, Five minutes later, Hagan, forgetful that he had and then all his energies were required to keep himself already dined, was tucking into the best the hall pro- from being mauled to death, for the villain was no vided, and that night he" slept soundly over the coach- weakling. Even the suddenness of the attack and the house, although his head did ache. But there were stun of the fall had not for one instant bewildered him, two pieces of gold in his pocket. and the way he set about Hagan was worthy of a hero And this glorious day he meditated on the fight and of the prize-ring. the fortune. In the chaos and commotion of the struggle, Hagan, " Was it worth it ? " the first " it " referring to the

too, caught a glimpse of the girl belabouring him over money and food ; the second to the pummelling he had the head with the handle of a croquet mallet. received. " I think it was, and agin I think it was "Bejabers !" he muttered to himself, " I've inter- not."

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A little girl who had been naughty was. told by her Regie, five years of age, was told to return thanks nurse she must ask God to- make her better when she for his dinner, and because the nurse made him have said her evening prayers, and she replied, " O yes, I'll some meat which he had refused, he was angry and " ask Him, nurse, but He'll be very clever if He does." said : "I will not thank God for the meat ! He " S. Greensill, 14, Archer Road, South Norwood, S.E. placed his hands before his face and said : Thank God, good pudding. Amen." F. B. B.-S., Shirland ^ if $ — 39, Gardens, Maida Vale. A lady meeting a little one of two years in the street ¥ * ¥ said : " Good-morning, my little dear ! I can never tell you and your sister apart. Which of the twins are A little incident which happened the other day " shows how at a very early age the child's mirfd is of a you." The little one answered : I'm the one what's business tendency. little girl out walkin'."— Mr. A. Kirkham, ii, Cloister Street, A (daughter of a fashion- Old Lenton, Nottingham. able dressmaker) was walking out with her baby brother in a go-cart, when a lady friend came along, after "9 and V V kissing and saying nice things about the baby, asked t Dl ring the exigencies of spring-cleaning the chil- the little girl if she would let her have the baby to dren's dinner consisted of boiled eggs. keep. "O, no," said the little girl. "We couldn't spare Tom (after slowly saying grace): Mother, I guess Tommy, but mother would lend you a paper-pattern God has made a mistake, and thinks it is breakfast- for one like him." Alfred Rich, care of 19, De Burgh time.— Mrs. J. C. Owen, 15, Clovelly Road, Ealing. Street, Canton, Cardiff. Dec. 7, 1901 BLACK ANJ) WHITE BUDGET 345

% pint milk, 2 oz. ground rite, y^ oz. butter, lemon juice. Stir the castor sugar in a pan over I he lire till it is like osy orner treacle: then pour into a dry mould or (basin, so as to line the basin with the caramel, and sprinkle with lemon juice. Put the rice, butler and milk into a saucepan and stir

it over the fire till it boils : add any flavouring and the eggs AT THE LOOKING-GLASS well beaten. Pour into the mould, cover with buttered paper, and steam till firm. |» This week our sketch is a most superb gown for afternoon. It is made in pale grey * ¥ * moire antique, and is trimmed with very hand- THE HOUSE some embroidery and cream lace and fur. How to Wash Paint Such a gown is assuredly the work of an By extreme diligence on the part of every of the artist. The bodice is made in moire^ antique, member everything the fronts ot which are most beautifully em- household we may get quite clean again before - the next ! paint shall need broidered with an exquisite design in leaves fog comes To wash we two flannels, water and soap. (N.B. Put soda in and flowers, carried out in cream satin and warm — no the grey chenille, with just a sonpcon of steel water for this job unless you want to bring the paint off:) Wet the paint with a flannel without allowing the water to beading. The back is tight-fitting, with New- trickle it leave the flannel market semi-basque, also richly embroidered. down, as would marks ; soap and

rub the paint ; then rinse out the flannel and remove the Dark cream lace is softly cascaded down each side of the ivory white chiffon front. The soap. Finally rub dry with the second flannel. Do not use it will leave bits of fibre it. mink fur round the collar and twice down the new flannel, as behind centre of the chiffon front gives tone to the whole. The sleeves are three-quarter length ;

they are finished by turned - back cuffs em- broidered like the bodice. Cream lace is draped very full beneath the cuffs and hangs to the wrist. The slight fu'ness of the sleeves is taken in at the shoulders by tiny tucks The skirt is quite a unique design. It is made on a separate foundation, and would be quite easy to make oneself. The foundation should be cut in three pieces (front and two sides). Fiust

join and make neat the seams ; then pin up a dart each side of skirt about four inches from the front seam, taking up about two inches in cJr the top of the dart. Next measure up the Prussian binding for a waistband and pin on. It is then ready to try on. It should fit quite perfectly round the hips. While fitting turn up the bottom to the length required. Only one side need be fitted.- The other side should be correctly matched by pinning the two sides of the top together and marking both sides the place where the band comes. A flat pleatedangloboerwar.comfrill of about four inches in width is a great finish to the foundation, and serves to keep the skirt well out at the bottom. The upper skirt is in four parts, each of which is scalloped with grey chenille. Each flounce is sewn separately on to the foundation. The front is pretty well plain, almost all the fulness being brought to the back, which is made about twelve inches longer than the front. * * * THE KITCHEN To my mind there is nothing- more delicious than cold chicken, but if the chicken be too fragmentary to make a second appearance with decency (or if it was of uncertain

Which is 1. The handsomest man? 2. The prettiest girl? 3. The most interesting picture? 4. The most interesting paragraph? Superb gown for afternoon (Photo by Reuilinsei) 5. The feature you like best > in this number of the " Budget." Send The Sink of Iniquity your opinion on the back of a post- I have known the harmony of a happy home disturbed by card, and the Editor will allot five jarring discord because the husband gradually absorbed his prizes of Ss. each to the five whose wife's entire stock of hairpins with which to open up the sink opinions coincide - most with the popu- pipe, averring that " a hairpin would do it when nothing lar vote. East day December 1 3th, else would." You will be able to keep your hairpins and

• results - announced December 28th. your temper if you would make a practice of pouring a

- pailful of strong , hot soda and water down the sink once a age) here is a very nice recipe for Minced Chicken. Say we week, and so keep it free from grease. lb. have J4 cold chicken, the other ingredients will be : 1*4, oz. flour, y^ pint milk, }i pint cream, i}£ oz. butter, mace and one shallot, salt and pepper. Melt the butter, We all know and appreciate the benefits of Sunlight Soap,

- add the flour and fry a little together ; now mix in the milk, and Mr. Lever, that very able 1 and enterprising manufac- flavoured with the mace and shallot, stir till it boils, and add turer; has won the affections of most housewives. I see that the cream and seasoning. - Now season the minced chicken H.R. H. the Crown Prince of Siam paid a visit last week to and let it get hot through in this sauce.- the works at Port Sunlight, and appreciated very much what * V * he saw. The model village on the banks of the Mosey N French Pudding indeed a fascinating- place to visit, with its pretty cottages % lb. castor sugar (for caramel), 2 eggs 1 oz. sugar, "nd pleasant laces. BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 34^ Dec. 7, 1 901

THE GR/ECO- ROMAN STYLE OF WRESTLING

Tom Connors says that there are really only two main popular Cumberland and Westmoreland throw, you get

lyles of wrestling, the Graeco-Roman and the Catch-as- your hip still farther under your opponent, so that he is Jateh-Can, the others being merely variations on the fvvo at your back. With a powerful heave you then hurl him

nain species. Last week I over your head, and floor

fave a series of Catch-as- • him. This is, of course, an Jatch-Can pictures, which exceptionally difficult throw, .eems to have excited great as the least hesitation or nterest among' the reader.* lack of power puts you com-

)f the Budget. This week 1 pletely at your opponent's five favourite positions in mercy. Buttockers are not he Graeco- Roman style, very numerous nowadays, jr which Tom Connors more is the pity. ias kindly supplied the The Catch-as-Catch-Can

•xplanatory cut-lines. . G. style, after all, is distinctly L Ross and Greek George located in Lancashire, so ire again the subjects of that the wrestling match he photographs. fought before King James The Greeks, of course, IV. of Scotland in The were famous wrestlers, and Lady of the Lake was pro- wrestling' is one of the bably Grseco- Roman. iMious pastimes in the You remember the quo-

fames narrated by Homer. tation : 'Vom the earliest days wrest- " Now clear the ring, for ing has also been popular hand to hand,

1 England, and when The manly wrestlers take ienry VIII. met Francis their stand. ving of the French the two Till o'er the rest superior nonarchs delighted in the rose, ntertainment of wrestling In holds for the beginning And proud demanded .vhich was provided for mightier foes • their delectation. Indeed, it is said that the two kings Nor called in vain, for Douglas came. *- * ** afterwards had a private bout for their own amusement, in .vhich the Frenchman beatangloboerwar.comthe man who had six wives. Prize of the wrestling match, the King Mext week I shall give a picture of wrestling in the French To Douglas gave the golden ring." .tyle, but, of The traditional ourse, in the wrestling match ime of King in As You Like •Yancis Grasco- It is rather a voman was a la mongrel affair, node. but as a rule the The cross-but- main features c- ock, which is the Cumberlai% illustrated on next and Westmore >age, is a favour- land and Graeco- ite thro win West- Roman are pre- nor eland and served with a C u m b e rl a n d. little preliminary i'ou turn your rou ?h - and - iaft side to your tumble just to jpponent, slip keep up the ex- your hip u'nder- citement of the leath him, then audience. :ross both his In the Cornish 'egs by your and Devonshire eft and swing styles a curious lim down. You linen jacket is mist fall as well worn by the is he, but he wrestlers, which vill fall under- hangs loosely on nost. This can The attack—Grfcco-Roman style of wrestling the wearers, and dsobe done from is tied at the

he right, but the left is the favourite. Keep a loose hold till front with two strings. Several of the throws in these he moment arrives for crossing his legs, when you must grip styles are closely parallel to Graeco-Roman throws, such as our opponent like a vice round the neck and shoulders that of the Fore-Hand Play, in which one man stands .0 prevent him upsetting you. In the buttock, a still more behind the other. Dec. 7, 1901 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET 347

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Aim-up back and bar Whist and fall back heave (Photos by R. Banks, Manchester) FAVOURITE POSITIONS IN THE GR^CO-ROMAN STYLE 348 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Dec. 7, 1901

COURSING MATCHES held last week at NEWMARKET

Air. J. Brice (judge) on the left Going to fresh ground

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Some of the spectators at the re-played match, Bristol Rovers v. Bristol City, November 27th (Photo by Hawke, Bristol)

Fallowfield for £30 the club ks popular its fact ; a one outside own area—a In spite of Manchester City's recent cause tor sorrow, the always of value in securing men. They have not the greatest I defeat by Liverpool, all the evidences to-day seem to point security of tenure of their ground. When a friend of mine to fixed resolution on the part of the City people to bidhigher was promoting an amateur club—the Athenians, width was as men become available, and gradually make their team to be run as a northern copy of the Corinthians —he was better accord with the desires which one knows they have, offered the famous Fallowfield ground at Manchester for and which their clientele so voluminously expresses. They something like ^30 a season. I wonder the City do not will succeed if they will but whirl in in good earnest, for try for the lease of an enclosure of such possibilities.

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How to Win a Competition I your measurements on the back of a postcard, marked So far as possible, the competi- Average Man Competition. Last day for sending in, I Decem- tions which we have started are so ber 20th. Results announced January 4th, 1902. arranged that every one of our * * * readers can have a chance ot Result of the Photo Competition for November I

winning- a prize. But, of course, After careful deliberation I have come to the conclusion each one has to compete with an that the best topical photograph sent to and reproduced in enormous number of others, and one the Budget during November was that of the Royal Parly naturally likes to find out which is at Portsmouth " Preparing to Entrain for London," taken the best way to come in first after all. In the competition, " Which is the Handsomest Man?" &c, if I were a competitor I should not trust entirely to my own judgment, unless I found it confirmed by others. The five readers who will win the prizes will be of such unusually sound and catholic taste that they can hardly rank as ordinary individuals. Their opinions will be the opinions of the average man, andyou know howhard the average man is to find. If I were a competitor, then, I shouid endeavour to find out the average opinion of my immediate circle of friends. Suppose there were an evening' party, I should send *he Budget round and give a little prize to the one whose opinion coincided most with the average opinions. It there were twelve persons present, that opinion would have twelve times asangloboerwar.commuch chance of winning' as my own individual guess. *** The Average Man This question of the average man and the average opinion is so interest-

- ing and important that I propose to set yet one more competition, to find out the average man or woman or the most individual man or woman among my readers. I therefore offer

Eight Prizes of 5/= each

to two men over twenty-five, two men under twenty-five, two married women and two unmarried girls re- .Black and white bicyclist at the Extnouth Carnival spectively, whose measurements Showing the pretty get-up of Mr. Frank Webster most coincide with or most differ from the average measurements of by Messrs. Russell and Sons, of Southsea (page 197, Novem- the other readers of the Budget. ber 9th). In congratulating the winners I may add that this Send in the measurements for — particular photo was taken in competition with some of the 1. Your height (measured to % finest photographers in the world. I do not know how it is, of an inch). and yet it seems to be a fact that anything and everything 2. Round the chest (measured to connected with the Navy has life and energy about it. I ^ of an inch). always maintain that the photographers at the various naval 3. Round the thickest part of ports are among the very best we have. Of course, they the fore-arm (measured to have a clear air, but, what is more, they have energy and /ll of an inch). enterprise. I always know that if any event of public 4. The length of your foot (in interest takes place at Portsmouth or Southampton a socks to }£ inch). regular sackful of photographs will arrive first post next 5. The widest stretch you can morning. I may add that no competition initiated by the make between the points Budget has had a more gratifying response than this of the of your thumb and little topical photo competition. Splendid pictures have been

finger (to j^ inch) ; and sent in, and I only wish I had had room for them all. Those 6. Your weight (to % pound). who haven't won this time need not lose hope, for the com- I promise to reproduce the photo- petition continues weekly, and there will be a prize of £5, graphs of the eight who win these with a Certificate of Merit, as before, given monthly till eight prizes in the Budget. Send further notice. i : — .

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A /so, as a special and mttch CONTENTS MISS PEGGY'S PROTEGES : By Bret Harte. A return to the manner of this famous writer's requii\ d feature, delightful " Baby Sylvester," " The Queen of FATHER CSIRSSTMAS'S BOOK TEA: Pirate Isle," and " Sarah Walker." A. Play for Private Performance i By ARTHUR RACKHAM. THE ROAD TO ROME: By E. Nesbit. Author phe Theatre Royal Back. Drawing of "The Treasure Seekers." Room, The Six Full Pages in Colours are as follows : THE CHRISTMAS OF THE POOR PLAYERS: THIS LITTLE PIG: By Lewis Bau.mer. By Tom Gallon. An old-fashioned Christmas

JEMIMA : By Lewis Baumer. Story by the author of " Tatterley." VUN ON THE ICE: By H. B. Nen-spn. FETCHING THE THROUGH THE GREEN DOOR: By Evelyn THE BADLY-BEHAVED SNOWMAN :' By F. Sharp. Another Fairy Story by the writer of Newton Shepard. " Wymps," and : THE HARE THAT DOUBLED i By Arthur DOCTOR

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My Sheffield contributors l popular citizen is the Lord have proved rather too clever, Mayor. and no less than nine 2. The citizen of whom Shef- are right with the answers field is most proud is the Duke to the six questions. They of Norfolk.

are : Mr. David Thomas, 3. The best footballer is 10, Kendon Terrace, Hirwain, Ernest Necdham.

South Wales ; Ethel Higgs, 4. The finest building is the 252-254, West Street, Sheffield; New Town Ha

ikiieiede* this coupon'. it may mean hoxkv. December jth, IQOT. NAME A DDK ESS It is intended to offer shortly a substantial prize to rejtde s of Black and White Budget who retain thf coupons included weekly. Full particulars will be forthcoming in due course, but commence saving them at once and The most popular man— KEEP TBIS The best footballer— the Lord Mayor (Photo, Yale) Needham

A. W. James, 5. The most in- 62, Myrtle Road, teresting' place to

Heeler, Sheffield ; visit is the Mappin Horace Inman, Art Gallery, Wes- 55, Norfolk Road, ton Park.

Sheffield ; D. B. 6. The prettiest M'Laren, Esq., spot is Endcliffe 56, Newbold Road, Woods.

Chesterfield ; Elsie I have never Howard, ^8, Bridg-e yet been to Shef-

Street, Sheffield ; field myself, but an H. J. Weston, 249, inspection of the Langsett Road, picture of Endcliffe Sheffield; E. Mal- Woods sent me by colm, 30, Coombe Mr. Jasper Red- Road, Crookes, fern, The'' well-

Sheffield ; and Mrs. known photo- A. M. Lawson, angloboerwar.com grapher, has con- 65, Bradley Street, vinced me that the Crookes, Sheffield. prettiest spot in The sum of Sheffield must be

£1 1 6s. 6d. has, one of the prettiest therefore, been spots in England. equally divided I am glad that among" these nine, these provincial who g-et 4s. id. "What's What?" each. The answers competitions have which coincide most "caught on" so with the popular well as they have. vote make out that This week it is " 1. The most The prettiest spot -Endcliffe Woods Glasg-ow."

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